Kamerun
Kamerun was an African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1920 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon. Kamerun also included northern parts of Gabon and the Congo with western parts of the Central African Republic, southwestern parts of Chad and far northeastern parts of Nigeria.
This article is about the historical German colony. For the modern nation, see Cameroon. For the territories ceded to Germany by France in 1911, see Neukamerun.
Kamerun
German (official)
Colony
17 August 1884
1920
495,000 km2 (191,000 sq mi)
790,000 km2 (310,000 sq mi)
2,600,000
4,645,000
German gold mark
German surveyor in Kamerun, 1884
Bananas being loaded for export to Germany, 1912
